[Distutils] "Python Package Management Sucks"

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Oct 2 05:33:24 CEST 2008


Toshio Kuratomi wrote:

> <nod>  this is what I was afraid of. This is definitely not a definition
> of resource-only that has meaning for Linux distributions.  None of the
> data in /usr/share is user-modifiable

In that case it must be there because it's architecture-independent,
right?

But by that criterion, all .py files should be in /usr/share, too.

Also all shell scripts, Perl code, awk/sed scripts, etc, etc.
Does the FHS specify that?

-- 
Greg


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